Manipulating The Mind
The electrodes were implanted into the song-generating region of the brain, and he could control them with a wireless remote. When he pressed a button, a bird singing in a cage across the lab would fall silent. Press again, and it would resume its song.
Entire press from The Wall Street Journal worth reading.
I wonder if the same mechanism works for getting your kids to do their homework. For that matter, I wonder if this works for getting your subordinates to do their assigned tasks.
This will have all kinds of implications, but on this point:
“……We can literally rewire our brains toward greater compassion and cooperation.”
I think that if they try to use this for psychiatric reasons, they might find that some brains reject the treatment to make a person “more compassionate/more cooperative”. So at some point and on some level, they will find that personality traits can’t be changed.
We’d not heard any statements from the Goodmans that rent may be canreised, (again this year?) or that vendors may have to move. The latter makes far more sense; the latest additions should have to relocate if there is to be any removal of any vendors. This certainly isn’t the fault of the most recent vendors they had no idea the lot couldn’t accommodate them.Ideally a lot would be able to provide the same accommodations as an RV park with each vendor having their own electrical plug-in and water hook-up. Look inside the box just in front of the Loco-Loco Burrito cart, you can’t miss it as there is a constant hiss of running water. You’ll see a network of hoses trying to draw from one water outlet.We assume the cap has taken place since power has not shut off since last Wednesday, the 1st of October. Correction, the power for the Altengartz Bratwurst stand hasn’t shut off; I know some of our neighbors have had continued outages but they aren’t occurring as frequently.The Multnomah Health Dept had to temporarily shut down two carts as a result of the electrical issue. The vendors were unable to maintain correct food temperatures; it’s impossible to get warmers to their correct temperature when the power is constantly going off and on again. Another vendor relies upon electricity for their water pump and water heater which you have to have unless you set up an acceptable hand-washing station and find a commissary for doing dishes.This will be an interesting winter. Many vendors use heaters in their carts to keep warm. They won’t be able to do that now as they’ll risk blowing the circuits.We are one of the three original food vendors who set up business at SW 10th & Alder in 2000 and the only one of the oringal which remained. We’ve seen many changes over the past 8 -1/2 years and we’ve enjoyed the growth the lot has experienced. We’re hoping that our neighbors are all able to continue doing business this coming winter.We’ll see.